I saw my favourite band, Camera Obscura, four times this month and now I have to adjust to a future where I won't see them again for a long time or possibly ... never again.
My SLE French exam is in an hour so I am replacing my thoughts with loud pop music. I for some reason couldn’t bring myself to formally prepare at all. I need a C, too. 😬
My “favourite” part of taking the train in Canada is where we slow down to slower than my average cycling speed while a freight train inches by us in the other direction. High speed rail now but actually like yesterday!
@grivettcarnac Oh yeah it's JULY 3 they cut us off. I just read June 3 but that's the last basic plan billing date. I'll burn through Bridgerton when it comes out on June 13 (they should have delayed it to July to tempt us basic-ers) and that'll be that.
We have been shopping nearly entirely at small grocery stores in May and it works great except getting my preferred milk alternative (Silk sweetened soy) is a total pain in the ass because there are too many milk alternatives and small stores have to pick and choose what to carry due to small shelf space.
@johnefrancis I think my running theory was also that I can handle UHT (ultra-high temperature processed) milk but not milk that has been pasturized at the lower temperature. If memory serves, most whipping creams are UHT processed here but regular milk is not. I need to inspect photos of Dairyland cartons.
@casseagull@johnefrancis Regular old whipping "cream" and other high (so called) cream milks usually have a ton of crap added to them to make it seem like cream, so it's weird that they are fine.
Maybe a test is to buy organic whipping cream which is actually 100% cream (and whips amazing into whipped cream that doesn't separate for days). Fill your wallet up first through.
Meanwhile all the western countries are like "ooh, no please stop that, Israel. Please don't do that. Oh pretty please could you stop or else we'll do absolutely nothing but continue to lightly admonish you and send you weapons. Also all you protesters at universities are anti-Semites."
One of my least favourite things about Ottawa is that everyone expects you to have a car and be able to just drive to wherever to do whatever. Not my friends, but the general population. It's just so gross.
Like a weaving instructor I took a course from at Fabrications - already kind of a shit place to get to without a car - sent an email saying that there was a spot opened in a course she's teaching at a yarn studio.
But you go to the website for this whole-ass shop - a private studio, but with a physical studio somewhere - and there's no mention of where the hell the place IS. If it's a private home, fine, but can you tell me where abouts in the 2000+ km2 of Ottawa you're located? Sheesh.
This makes me so fucking mad because my local small grocery store, the only place nearby to get fruit and vegetables, closed in December over a liquor license dispute - their square footage wasn't large enough to be considered a grocery store!!!! - and now the government is rolling out liquor sales to corner stores. Come the fuck on. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/alcohol-sales-convenience-stores-ontario-1.7213546
And the additional irony to this is that now we almost certainly also won't have anywhere nearby to buy beer, wine, and ready to drink cocktails because there are no real stores.
One of my neighbours is practicing their trumpet at 10:30pm. We get it, you’re quirky and interesting, now go the fuck to bed. (At least they’re talented at it but come the fuck on)
Tulip Fest traffic on our street is extra fun this year because the construction project has been working on landscaping and has a ton of gravel and dirt that are all over the street so every time someone drives by and has to turn around at the dead end they cast even more dust onto our house.